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Covid-19 crisis, pandemic resilience and linkages to land : an exposition
Choudhury, Pranab R.; Ghosh, Ranjan Kumar; Sindhi, Sumita - 2020
For a COVID-19 like pandemic, the Achilles heel is an unsuspecting villain – rapid and global land use changes. The way governments, businesses and communities see, relate to and use land, not only influences the outbreak but also determines their impact on humanity and development. Drawing...
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March 2011 Earthquake, Tsunami and Fukushima Nuclear Accident Impacts on Japanese Agri-Food Sector
Bachev, Hrabrin - 2015
The paper presents findings of a large study on socio-economic impacts of the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster on the Japanese agriculture and food sector. It contains fourteen parts: introduction with the framework of analysis; a brief description of events and...
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Assessments of Preparedness, Agri-Food Impacts and Implications for Disaster Risk Management of Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
Bachev, Hrabrin - 2019
On March 11, 2011 the strongest ever recorded in Japan earthquake occurred which triggered a powerful tsunami and caused a nuclear accident in Fukushima nuclear plant. The later was a “man-made” disaster having immense impacts on people’s life, health and property, infrastructure, supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014103276
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Expert Assessment on Agri-Food Implications of March 2011 Earthquake, Tsunami and Fukushima Nuclear Accident in Japan
Bachev, Hrabrin - 2015
The March 11, 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear plant accident have had immense impacts on Japanese agri-food sector. Previous analysis has demonstrated that some of the impacts that triple disaster are difficult to identify and assess due to the insufficient information, controversial data,...
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Short-Term Effects of House Prices on Birth Rates
Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2016
This paper explores the effects of house prices on fertility rates using a new instrumental variable strategy, exploiting exogenous variation in house prices induced by planning restrictions. Using data from English counties, the instrumental variable estimates indicate that: A 10 per cent...
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Youth unemployment and active labor market policies in Europe
Caliendo, Marco; Schmidl, Ricarda - 2015 - Forthcoming in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2015
Since the economic crisis in 2008, European youth unemployment rates have been persistently high at around 20% on average. The majority of European countries spends significant resources each year on active labor market programs (ALMP) with the aim of improving the integration prospects of...
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Climate change and migration : a CGE analysis for two large urban regions of Latin America
Chisari, Omar O.; Miller, Sebastián - 2016
Migration is one of the strategies used by populations to adapt to natural shocks and also to respond to economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457917
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Expansion of undergraduate courses positions impacting the migration of students in Brazil : an analysis with the Demographic Census of 2010
Barufi, Ana Maria Bonomi - 2013
This paper advances in the literature on the migration of college students, which is not very large in Brazil … of attraction and repulsion of families are constructed for Brazilian municipalities. Therefore, migration decision may …) over the net migration index. This preliminary result has a very important policy implication, which is the fact that an …
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Give me your tired and your poor : impact of a large-scale amnesty program for undocumented refugees
Bahar, Dany; Ibáñez, Ana María; Rozo, Sandra V. - 2020
Between 2014 and 2020 over 1.8 million refugees fled from Venezuela to Colombia as a result of a humanitarian crisis, many of them without a regular migratory status. We study the short- to medium-term labor market impacts in Colombia of the Permiso Temporal de Permanencia program, the largest...
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Give me your tired and your poor: impact of a large-scale amnesty program for undocumented refugees
Bahar, Dany; Ibáñez, Ana María; Rozo, Sandra V. - 2020
Between 2014 and 2020 over 1.8 million refugees fled from Venezuela to Colombia as a result of a humanitarian crisis, many of them without a regular migratory status. We study the short- to medium-term labor market impacts in Colombia of the Permiso Temporal de Permanencia program, the largest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012295006